NEWS

2017 Headlines

“Investing in all the traditional security in the world to prevent your website from having vulnerabilities will not help if your users’ own bad habits of reusing passwords results in cybercriminals being able to log in to your application just like those users.”

“The economy of the Internet as a whole is suffering so that we can learn which passwords have been stolen. Because Blackfish can see all automated log-ins in real time, [it] can capture compromised usernames and passwords,” Sarah Squire says, “instead of buying them.”

“GUEST: Shuman Ghosemajumder Chief Technology Officer Shape Security Discussing the launch of Blackfish, the first system that can autonomously identify stolen passwords before the original data breach is reported or even detected.”

“Today, the company released Blackfish, a product that could help blunt the impact of stolen password caches from massive breaches like Yahoo (the mother of all breaches), Adobe and Home Depot to name but a few examples.”

“For years we’ve been educating people not to enter their personal information into sites they have never visited before to protect them from phishing,” said Shuman Ghosemajumder, chief technology officer of Shape Security. “And that’s exactly what the notification site asks people to do.”

"In 2011, while serving as deputy assistant secretary of defence at the Pentagon, Shape Security co-founder Sumit Agarwal observed a rising trend in the volume and complexity of automated attacks on Web and mobile applications. "

"A study out today from Shape Security shows that it's common for credential-stuffing login attempts to account for more than 90% of all login activity on Internet-facing systems at Fortune 100 firms."